ENGINEERS' TEMPLE

yes i think is something not enough discussed yet ..is part of the temple ? another construction ? of just the other horn ?

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Great find - I never would have noticed that, but after looking carefully at the trailer I believe it is a large building!

Me and danrald discussed this on a previous post but danrald thought it was the other end of the crashing ship which later self-righted itself into its eventual resting position. All guesswork, admittedly. The trailer was really packed with more questions wasn't it?!

I too started out thinking it was the other side of the ship, but it's very rectangular whereas the ship is very curvy. Yes, the trailer is really packed with food for thought!

true, the original script said they found the derelict but behind it was a dome where they found the eggs, not in the bowls of the ship.

I think the size of the SJ ship is making it difficult to judge this shot. AVPGalaxy has high res pictures so I'm going to reference those. http://www.avpgalaxy.net/gallery/albums/movies/prometheus/trailers/20111222_teasertrailer39.jpg If you look at this shot, I think it's pretty clear that this image takes place after the mid air explosion or collision. You can see wreckage all over the ground. I would think that if there was a seperate temple, it should be partially visible in this picture? I think it's all part of the ship. The ship is so immense that it looks like a seperate structure.

AVPGalaxy has high res pictures so I'm going to reference those. http://www.avpgalaxy.net/gallery/albums/movies/prometheus/trailers/20111222_teasertrailer39.jpg If you look at this shot, I think it's pretty clear that this image takes place after the mid air explosion or collision. You can see wreckage all over the ground. I would think that if there was a seperate temple, it should be partially visible in this picture? I think it's all part of the ship. The ship is so immense that it looks like a seperate structure.

I think the temple will be less Geiger like

What you describe as a "building" is actually the other "horn" of the SJ ship striking the ground, just before the closer end near Rapace/Shaw does so. The ship turns ~ 180 degrees after the impact/explosion high in the atmosphere, and strikes with the rounded end up. ( [b]horns down[/b] ) It then rolls across the ground until it stops with the rounded end on the ground, and the horns, sticking straight up in the air. ( the shot where Rapace is staring at it ) The most amazing thing about the whole sequence, is that the ship ramains intact.

The derelict ship when sitting upright does reveal something peculiar. Look at the the right arm of the ship with two protrusions coming out of it, one longer than the other. http://www.avpgalaxy.net/gallery/albums/movies/prometheus/trailers/20111222_teasertrailer39.jpg Reminds me of a very popular hand sign, probably the most popular: http://dc355.4shared.com/img/oGZPNzio/s7/justin_bieber_hand_gesture_hor.jpg

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Your description of the ship's crashing down with it's "horn's down and then rolling until the horns are sticking up is very interesting - have you seen some footage I havn't?

The general consensus in this forum or anywhere else seems to point to the fact that that Giger-like structure crashing down on Noomi & Charlize is part of the derelict ship. I think this may be something else. There are 2 different scenes. Ridley did mention in one of his interviews that "something so small" becoming "something so large" What is it? I can't wait for June to come.

It seems BLONDIE and ABGIRL started running from under the ship, which means not only did they have to avoid the final tail part, but also the mighty UBERFIST too. Kind of silly for ABGIRL to wander off from a safe observational position in the middle of the horseshoe to its ROTATIONAL PATH OF DOOM.

I agree that it is also part of the derelict ship. But in the beginning of the trailer, when the bay door opens and vehicles proceed to exit the human ship, the "building" in the distance sort of resembles the derelict laying flat. Not like in Alien or Aliens, but completely flat. Just a thought.

@pgr I simply downloaded the trailer in 1080p and watched it uh......[i]several[/i] times, advancing/reversing frames, etc. Doing that carefully, you can actually make out the fin-like structure on the "horn" in the distance, as it strikes first. On the main page of this site, there's a shot of the SJ ship with a large gouge just to it's left. In the trailer, there's a shot of Shaw staring at the ship with it's "horns" upright, some distance away Though the trailer doesn't actually show it, the sequence of events I described is really the only one that makes sense in context with the visual evidence we [i]do[/i] have.

Engr101 has identified something important: the protruding "fingers" on one of the ship's horns. Now when the ship comes to rest, the horn with the fingers is at the front. Now let's take the theory that the ship made landfall upside down and rolled back upright. But surely the impact would have crushed the fingers of the horn, yet they appear pristine. I'm not so sure anymore about the horns-first crashing, which leads me to reconsider the background "building" as another object.

[img]http://oi40.tinypic.com/t5mwph.jpg[/img] From the trailer, it seems to me that something is rolling towards the two girls instead of crashing straight from above. The background piece seems to be moving/rolling with the front piece. It's difficult to accept that this is the same derelict ship that crash-landed -flat- in 1979's ALIEN (see below). Plus, look at that terrain on LV 426. You can see denser formation of jagged rocks as opposed to the flatter landscape from PROMETHEUS (see above). [img]http://oi41.tinypic.com/f1xu34.jpg[/img]

Here is my take on how it crashes. [img]http://i1209.photobucket.com/albums/cc389/bongobat/Fun%20on%20the%20Internet/derelictcrash2.gif[/img] Derelict Model by [url=http://www.md3d.narod.ru/aliens/derelict.html]Denis Nefedov[/url]